{"id":32670,"date":"2012-10-22T07:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T11:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=32670"},"modified":"2021-02-20T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T16:45:26","slug":"where-the-sid-caesarimogene-coca-magic-startedthe-admiral-broadway-revue-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=32670","title":{"rendered":"Where the Sid Caesar\/Imogene Coca Magic Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where the Sid Caesar\/Imogene Coca Magic Started<\/p>\n<p>The Admiral Broadway Revue is the only show known to be canceled because it was too successful&#8230;really! Admiral could not keep up with the demand for their TV sets so faced with the prospect of building a new plant or canceling the show, they canceled.<\/p>\n<p>This was ground zero of what would later become the hugely successful, &#8216;Your Show Of Shows&#8217;. Admiral Broadway Review premiered on 28 January 1949, and was broadcast live simultaneously on both NBC and the now-defunct DuMont network. The show was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre (also known as the Park Theatre) at 5 Columbus Circle in New York. The hour-long series was directed by Max Liebman, hosted by Sid Caesar, and also starred Imogene Coca. The last show of Admiral Broadway Revue was on June 3, 1949.<\/p>\n<p>The series, oddly enough, was sponsored by TV set manufacturer Admiral, a company which was in direct competition with RCA (the parent company of NBC) and DuMont, which both manufactured TV sets. To see an episode, click the link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/AdmiralBroadwayRevue\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/AdmiralBroadwayRevue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/441957752508446\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Where-the-Sid-CaesarImogene-Coca-Magic-Started-The-Admiral-Broadway-Revue-is\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/441957769175111\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where the Sid Caesar\/Imogene Coca Magic Started The Admiral Broadway Revue is the only show known to be canceled because it was too successful&#8230;really! Admiral could not keep up with the demand for their TV sets so faced with the prospect of building a new plant or canceling the show, they canceled. This was ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58638,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670\/revisions\/58638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}